DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with abstract design

NameTablet

Artist Artist unrecorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 1/8 × 1 1/2 × 3/8 in. (5.4 × 3.8 × 1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.142

Object numberA.2014.26.142

DescriptionTablet with abstract design. A diagonal line connects lower left corner with upper right corner fo tablet. Just above the base of the diagonal, another line begins a more complicated trajectory, angling up and curving across the tablet, eventually intersecting the top of the long diagonal. The bottom edge of the tablet is spanned by a horizontal bow-shape. Small triangle in upper right corner of tablet.